Chapter 6 Jinjiang First Release Chapter 6 Is he not very smart...

Fang Shu's face flushed red, and Yu Qinglong felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by him.

How common would this be in modern times? But it was different here. Fang Shu had just looked at him as if they were already having something going on, with a hint of guilt in his despair.

Yu Qinglong said, "Then Dr. Mo, please treat him first. I'll wait outside. If there's anything you need me to do, please let me know. If you have any medical books you could lend me, that would be even better."

"Hey?" Doctor Mo asked doubtfully, "Can you read?"

"I don't know, but I can learn slowly."

"That's not something you can learn in a day or two. Besides, isn't studying medicine hard?"

You have to go up the mountain to collect herbs, identify them, learn medical principles, have the strength to do massage and acupuncture, learn to write prescriptions, and more...

If you want to be a great doctor, there is a lot to learn.

Yu Qinglong, however, came prepared. He, too, had gone through the days of crazy exams, and had worked hard to get into his ideal university. So why shouldn't he endure hardships?

"Doctor Mo, Master, I'm not afraid of hardship. Just consider this as a favor to me. I really want to learn medicine from you. I've made up my mind. If you don't accept me today, I'll come back tomorrow. If you don't accept me tomorrow, I'll come back the day after tomorrow. If one day doesn't work, then ten days will. If ten days doesn't work, then a hundred days will."

"Why are you so twisted all of a sudden? I already said I don't accept any disciples."

"But if you don't accept me, I will have no way to survive!"

"W-What do you mean?"

"One must have something to look forward to in life. You know how I am now. If I can't do something, I always want to go to the river."

"What nonsense is this kid talking about!"

"I'm not being silly," Yu Qinglong said earnestly. "Master, it seems I won't be able to get married, but I don't want to burden my father and my dad for the rest of my life. The Bai family knew I was broken off from the engagement and refused to let their younger brother marry my second brother. It's all because of me that they were implicated. But I don't want this. Will you let me learn from you? After I learn it, at least it will be of some use. Maybe my family won't have to be implicated by me anymore, and people outside will look at me with a more respectful eye. Otherwise, you'll say that no one wants me alive, and I'll only make things difficult for my family. Then what's the point of me living? I might as well just die."

Doctor Mo: “…”

Fang Shu: "..." This guy is really good at lying. Yesterday he was thinking about going to the river to fish, but today he wants to die?

Yu Qinglong said, "Master, please be kind."

Doctor Mo sighed, "Brother Qinglong, I know you have difficulties, but I have my own difficulties too."

Yu Qinglong said, "Then don't treat me as your disciple. I'll accept you as my foster father, okay with that?"

"You're getting more and more ridiculous! I'm almost your grandfather, how can this be? Stop messing around, I won't admit you if I say so!" Doctor Mo's tone also became stern, "Go home now. Don't walk around alone as an unmarried man. I have patients here, what are you doing standing here?"

"He can treat his illness, and I will pay my respects to my master. At worst, I can go out and wait." Yu Qinglong gave Fang Shu another warning look and went out.

Doctor Mo's daughter was in the yard, placing freshly steamed herbs on a curtain to dry. Yu Qinglong saw her and went over to her and asked, "Sister, how can I help?"

Mo Xiaoning had heard her father talk about Yu Qinglong last night, and she knew why she came. She sighed and said, "No need, don't bother. My father will not accept you as his apprentice."

Yu Qinglong said, "If you don't want to take it, then don't take it. It won't prevent me from helping you. I see you have a lot to dry, big sister, I can help you."

Mo Xiaoning looked at Yu Qinglong in silence for a moment, then, seeing the stubbornness in his eyes, she agreed. Her father had been brooding over the past for so many years, and this knot in his heart was definitely not good for his health. If possible, she also hoped that this matter could be put behind her.

That ginseng had been at home for many years and had lost its medicinal properties, but her father was reluctant to use it, let alone throw it away. Perhaps this child was here to help his father.

Yu Qinglong washed his hands and came over to help dry the medicine. It wasn't a difficult job, though there was a lot of it. But what he had the most was time. After Mo Xiaoning showed him how to do it, he quickly got the hang of it.

He has never been a lazy person. After drying the herbs, he helped to clean up and pick the herbs.

Seeing him squatting opposite and diligently helping with the work, Mo Xiaoning asked him, "Why do you suddenly want to learn medicine? It's not an easy thing. I wanted to learn from my father back then. But firstly, my father said that girls are not suitable for practicing medicine. Secondly, there is really too much to learn, and I just can't concentrate. Now I can only recognize some medicines and understand their properties. But it took me a long time to learn even this little bit."

Yu Qinglong said: "I just want to be of some use, so that people don't say I'm a jinx whenever they mention me."

When Mo Xiaoning heard this, he felt as if his heart was being pulled.

They all lived in the same village, seeing each other every day. How could she not know about Yu Qinglong's situation? Although she wasn't as tall as him, she was born with a blue birthmark on her face, the size of a bowl. Even her father, a skilled doctor, couldn't cure such a congenital condition. Furthermore, her birth caused her mother's death due to complications during childbirth, leading many to say she had a tough life. Childbirth is clearly a journey through the gates of hell.

Afterwards, she couldn't say she was married for many years, so she married a man who had fled from a disaster and was helpless. When her husband came, he was still a little lame, and the villagers also pointed fingers and gossiped about him at first, so she understood Yu Qinglong's hardship.

"Sister, what is this?" Yu Qinglong asked, pointing at a medicinal herb.

"Acanthopanax senticosus." Mo Xiaoning paused for a moment and continued, "This herb is pungent and slightly bitter, and it enters the spleen, kidney, and heart meridians. It can replenish qi and calm the mind. It's plentiful in the mountains in spring, growing on trees. Pick the tender shoots, blanch them in water, and eat them as a vegetable."

“When were these picked?”

"Yesterday. I picked a lot and didn't finish it, so I'll continue today."

Mo Xiaoning looked like a very stable person. She never smiled, but Yu Qinglong could still sense her kindness.

He went over what she had just said in his mind and asked, "It's called 'Acanthopanax Senticosus', and it's pungent and slightly bitter. It enters the spleen, kidney, and heart meridians, right? It can replenish qi and calm the mind. It grows on trees in the mountains in spring. The young shoots can be blanched and eaten."

Mo Xiaoning looked up at him with a little surprise: "Yes."

Yu Qinglong even compared young and relatively older plants. He discovered that both the old and young plants had a ring of tiny thorns at the base of their stems. The grayish-brown bark color might be how the plant got its name, "Acanthopanax."

Maybe it’s because of the season, they all look quite tender and have a unique aroma.

Yu Qinglong asked, "Sister, can you read?"

Mo Xiaoning said: "I know a little, but not much."

Yu Qinglong asked, "Then how did you learn calligraphy? I want to learn, but I don't know how."

I don't know if there are any girls' schools in the big cities here, but there definitely aren't any in this remote area. If Mo Xiaoning can read, she must have learned from Doctor Mo. So how did Doctor Mo teach her?

In fact, he wanted to ask Dr. Mo if there were any books he could borrow from him, but it was unreasonable for him, an "illiterate" person, to borrow books.

Mo Xiaoning said: "When my father wrote the prescription, I would follow him and watch. Sometimes when I saw some simple characters, I would ask how to read them, and my father would tell me. After reading them many times, I naturally recognized some of them and could write down a few."

"How do you write 'Acanthopanax'?"

Mo Xiaoning took a small stick and wrote slowly on the ground. After reading it, Yu Qinglong found that this was simplified Chinese. However, the simplified and traditional Chinese characters of these three words were the same, and he couldn't be sure whether the simplified or traditional characters were used here.

Just as he was thinking about asking for the names of other herbs, Mr. Fang, who had injured his waist, came out of the house, holding his waist. He walked slowly with a grin on his face, glancing at Yu Qinglong from time to time.

Yu Qinglong also looked at the man for a while. Logically speaking, if his family could afford to raise cattle and eat sugar cakes, and even share them with others, their living conditions must be good. How come his back was so injured that no one from his family came to see the doctor?

He was curious, but he couldn't ask. Doctor Mo stood at the door and said, "Mr. Fang, don't come alone next time. It takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone, so you need to take good care of your waist. Next time you come, either lie down in the cart and let someone else drive, or send someone to come find me. When you go back, don't lift anything heavy, just lie down and rest for half a month."

"Half a month?!" Fang Shu's face fell. "This is really too long. Can't it be reduced by a few days?"

"That's already an understatement." Doctor Mo said with a stern face, "You have a back injury. We rely on our backs to exert strength. If your back is not in good condition, you won't be able to exert any strength in the future. It will be difficult to cure it then."

Fang Shu clutched a few packets of medicine, his eyes darkening with despair. He'd have to lie down for half a month, and how could he go out and collect those interesting rocks and wood?! He might as well have died!

Doctor Mo then helped turn the oxcart around and asked Fang Shu to get on carefully: "Be careful on the road. If you encounter a particularly bumpy road, you can get off and walk for a while."

Fang Shu said: "I'll take note of this. Thank you, Doctor Mo."

After Fang Shu finished speaking, he looked at Yu Qinglong again, but quickly turned his gaze elsewhere.

This is a brother, this is a brother, this is a brother, you can’t be rude!

Fang Shu's ears turned red. When he thought that Yu Qinglong had seen his most shameful place, and this man was a boy, he felt uneasy.

No wonder he wouldn't tell anyone they'd met, or even tell them his given name. He didn't give names, and it was possible he wasn't even twenty yet. Thinking about it, Fang Shu felt Yu Qinglong was quite kind. He could have refused, but he still helped him. And he didn't ask for anything in return. He'd given him the sugar cake voluntarily.

But they are no longer innocent!

Fang Shu was torn. He'd never loved anyone in his entire life. He felt he didn't like girls, and he didn't like boys either. He just liked making fun things, and figured if he couldn't hold his mother back one day, he'd just find someone comparable and marry them. He'd never considered being seen in places he shouldn't be seen before marriage.

Although he was the one being watched, Fang Shu felt that he had made a big mistake.

Since he was little, his mother had always taught him to behave properly, not to look at what he shouldn't look at, and not to say what he shouldn't say, or he would be held responsible.

So in his mind, just taking a look means taking responsibility.

Fang Shu was distressed, but because the others were around, he couldn't say anything. He lowered his head, thinking hard, and got on the ox cart and left.

Just as they left the Mo family's courtyard, Doctor Mo asked, "Mr. Fang, did you take the wrong path? Isn't your home heading west?"

Fang Shu saw that they had taken the wrong path and quickly told the ox to turn around. But for some reason, the ox wouldn't listen even when he pulled on the rope. Pulling harder only caused his waist to ache again: "Hey, hey, hey, hey, salted egg yolk! Stop pulling!"

Doctor Mo couldn't bear to see this and helped him drive the cattle in another direction: "That's good now, drive slowly."

Fang Shu breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you, Doctor Mo."

In just a few moments, he'd worked himself into a sweat. He clasped his fists towards Doctor Mo. As he left, he couldn't help but glance in Yu Qinglong's direction. Seeing Yu Qinglong looking back, he immediately turned his head away in shock, then cried out, "Ah!" He must have twisted his neck again, perhaps by pushing too hard.

Yu Qinglong frowned and asked Doctor Mo, "Doctor Mo, is this young man not very smart?"

Doctor Mo looked as if he had heard something crazy: "How could it be? If his brain wasn't working properly, there wouldn't be anyone with a good brain in this village. He's a famous scholar of our generation."

Is that all?! Still a scholar?!

Yu Qinglong vaguely remembered something and asked Doctor Mo, "Is the Fang family in the neighboring village related to him?"

Mo Xiaoning said, "That's his family. The Fang family has many people and a lot of land. They are the richest family of this generation."

Yu Qinglong: “…”

This kid has a good-looking face, is tall, and is a scholar. He also has so much land at home!

By the way, this guy is still a man!

Apart from not looking too sturdy, there are absolutely no disadvantages!

Yu Qinglong was furious. God was too partial.

His unyielding spirit came back: "Doctor Mo, Master, you must accept me!"

Doctor Mo's eyes darkened, and he thought to himself, "Why are you here again?" He turned around and went into the house and closed the door.

Yu Qinglong had no choice but to ask Mo Xiaoning: "Sister, can I come and learn to identify herbs from you in the future? I can help you with the work. Oh, and you have a child, I can also take him to play."

Noila Mo said: “But my father still won’t accept you.”

Yu Qinglong said, "Then I'll learn how to recognize herbs from you first, okay? Can you help me, big sister?"

Mo Xiaoning was a woman after all, so she was soft-hearted. She nodded and said, "Then come over if you want. I pick up herbs at this time every morning. Sometimes I'm not at home, so I might be out collecting herbs."

Yu Qinglong said happily, "Thank you, big sister! You've picked all these, right? I'll help you pick some."

Mo Xiaoning said "hmm" and sighed secretly.

By the time the medicine was packed up, it was already noon, and Yu Qinglong had to go home for lunch.

At this moment, Mr. Fang finally arrived home suffering from back pain.

As soon as he entered the house, Fang Wu said angrily and distressedly, "Let's see if you dare to pick up those broken stones this time!"

In the past, Fang Shu would have definitely argued that those weren't broken stones, they were treasures. But right now, he wasn't in the mood. He asked, "Mom, where's Dad?"

Fang Wu said, "I'm going to practice calligraphy later."

Fang Shu moved at a snail's pace to his father's study.

As soon as Fang Dingman saw his son come in, he quickly hid his ugly handwriting and put on a fatherly look of authority: "Hey, Shu'er, how's your back? What did Doctor Mo say? It was your mother who said she wanted to teach you a lesson and didn't let your father go with you. I've been worried all morning."

Fang Shu seemed not to notice his father's hidden words and asked tentatively, "Father, what do you think would happen if a man was relieving himself and was seen by another boy?"

Fang Dingman: "..." What did you say? !

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Yu Qinglong: This damn Mr. Fang has taken too many advantages!

Fang Shu: If you accompany me to move stones in the future, all these benefits will belong to you [lop-eared rabbit head]